ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack

For the last few years, historian and archivist Jason Scott has been involved with a loose, rogue band of data preservation activists called The Archive Team. As major sites with brand recognition and the work of millions announce short-notice shutdowns of their entire services, including Geocities, Friendster, and Yahoo Video, Archive Team arrives on the scene to duplicate as much as they possibly can for history before all the data is wiped forever. To do this, they have been rude, crude and far outside the spectrum of polite requests to save digital history, and have used a variety of techniques to retrieve and extract data that might have otherwise been unreachable. Come for the rough-and-tumble extraction techniques and teamwork methods, stay for the humor and ranting.

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[PeterBParkr]

"Backups are important" and that right there was golden!!!! Love Jason Scott and he really made that point hit home. He should speak at corporations to teach them about the need for security and backups as part of that process.

[quaek]

This video needs WAY more views.

[Tanalyn Dollar]

Jason is funny, smart, offensive and a great storyteller. Like other really smart people, he continues to warn us about 'free' services..free is just another 4 letter word.

[kcscientist1]

Actually taking frames out of animated GIFs was not to save space, it was to speedup download times, which were horrendous on the 9600 baud and 14.4k modems. 

[ForViewingOnly]

Superb talk! These guys are doing great work! In another 50 years when all of our current internet data can be stored on a device the size of a postage stamp, we will wonder why we ever permanently deleted anything. Keep going Archive Team!

[Andrew Singleton]

Jason Scott and the Archive Team has made backups of the CoH Site and the Forums.

They are awesome people.

[spiralofhope]

+1

[daere5280]

I really, really like Jason Scott. He's funny, and never boring. Yeah, he's a little bombastic, a little over-the-top. But, without that, way fewer people would pay attention -- and a lot of important work wouldn't get done. Go Jason! Go Archive Team!

[11newtown]

Big diff, bro. Botnets involve compromised computers, not virtualized devices created for a non-nefarious purpose.

[Kait Seth]

28:33 - "Hundred virtual machines" LOL... you mean a botnet?

[jacob moharram]

I can't see the Saab Automobile webpage lasting to long the company is gone if anyone knows these guys could you please pass it on

[thejobloshow]

So great, I watched it twice!